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The symbol shows the location of the Limavady (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 45,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Limavady (Northern Ireland) mast?
Limavady transmitter - Limavady transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Limavady (Northern Ireland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Limavady transmitter broadcast?
If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Limavady (Northern Ireland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Limavady transmitter?
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,051km northeast (51°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Elliotts Hill | Transposer | 13 km SE Ballymena, Co. Antrim | 90 homes (according to B9 Energy) |
How will the Limavady (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 4 Sep 2019 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | B E K T | |||||
| C40 | SDN | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C43 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C46 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C49tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C54tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C58tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 10 Oct 12 and 24 Oct 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 800W |
Local transmitter maps
Limavady Freeview Limavady DAB Limavady AM/FM Limavady TV region BBC Northern Ireland UTVWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Limavady transmitter area
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Gerry: I don't think that you have anything to worry about at all.
The Dil Debate referred to on the Highland Radio website can be read here:
Dil ireann - 26/Sep/2012 Banks Recapitalisation (Continued)
With television reception high power transmitters cover wide areas. Despite this, there are always pockets that they cannot reach and these are often communities in valleys.
In these cases small relay "filler-in" transmitters are installed to serve these communities. As covered in the debate, some of these small transmitters, which carry only analogue at present, will be decommissioned at switchover. So they won't broadcast Saorview after 2th October. Saorview claims that the Moville transmitter will serve these communities, but they aren't so sure.
This is immaterial to your situation as you receive Saorview from Fanad which is quite a high powered relay. The transmission power of Fanad is 1.5kW and this will be the power it will operate on after switchover.
However, if you know anyone who receives from Moville or Holywell Hill, then you can tell them that the current transmission power of the digital signals from those transmitters are restricted until 24th October.
This information is published by RTNL which operates the network of transmitters:
http://www.rtenl.ie/wp-co….pdf
Basically, as far as Saorview coverage is concerned, it won't go backwards. That is, all the places that can get it now will have it at switchover.
If you get analogue channels from Limavady now, then you will be expected to receive its digital service when it goes on to full power on 24th October. Its transmission power will increase 25-fold at switchover.
No broadcaster can ever give any guarantee as to signal coverage. That said, if the coverage is the same as the current analogue, and I don't see why it should not be, then I would expect that you should be able to receive digital signals from Limavady after switchover.
With respect, if it turned out that Limavady doesn't reach you after switchover, then I don't think that the authorities will do anything. So all you can do is sit tight and wait until 10th October when BBC goes on to full power.
On 10th October, after you've tuned your TV to the BBC channels, come on here and let us know that you have success!
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Saturday, 29 September 2012
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Helen11:28 PM
The Digital TV Signal From Limavady is very weak is this being investigated who runs transmitter at Limavady? can this be looked into or how do i report?
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Helen11:31 PM
I live in ROI (Inishowen Burt), near the border. I can receive the UK channels such as BBC and UTV with my aerial via analogue. Will I still get them after analogue switches off on 24/10/2012?
The analogue signal is being switched off on 24 October in both ROI and NI.
If you currently receive the analogue UK services through an aerial because of signal overspill, you will most likely continue to receive those channels even after the switch to digital. Is there any guarantees this will be the case?
will I be able to receive some of the Irish channels on the Northern Ireland multiplex (NI Mux) carried on the UK Freeview HD service. Will The NI Mux carry RT One, RT Two, TG4 from October 24th onwards. I know To receive the NI Mux will you need a Freeview HD box or TV set. To find out if you are in an area covered by the NI Mux,I have checked with Digital UK www.digitaluk.co.uk who could not help or answer my questions they told dont ave any involvement is upgrading site at Limavady and are only an advice telephone line.
Do they care?
BBC News - RTE channels will go on Freeview in Northern Ireland will rte be on limavady transmitter.??? if not campaign needs to be started on here
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Helen11:49 PM
Very weak signals at present in the letterkenny area is limavady powered down????
We need a Freeview Signal test of the Limavady Freeview signal not been able to pick up signal
dont want 'Transmitter engineering' for a brush off comment, but that a proper investigtion will be started here to get proper power.
Enginerring at Limavady wat is going on there at mast?Has to be reported what is contact details digital uk useless
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Sunday, 30 September 2012
Helen: I've responded extensively in the exchange with Gerry, of which you ask similar questions.
All Freeview transmitters broadcast on low power pre-switchover for the simple fact that there aren't enough spare channels/frequencies for them to operate high-power analogue and high-power digital at the same time. Thus, there are quite a few on the fringes who only receive Freeview at switchover.
On the basis that the analogue signals propagate to your location, it is expected that the full-power digital ones will. In 10 days time you will know whether you can receive BBC channels via Freeview. I think that there is a good chance that where there is good analogue reception, that there will be good digital reception after switchover.
The reason for exact engineering works is quite irrelevant. In general it is to do with the transmission of TV signals and not because engineers have nothing better to do.
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Monday, 1 October 2012
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Gerry10:11 AM
Checked last night my TV Analogue Signal running at 90% out of 100% -Hopefully if Dave Lindsay previous Advice after 10/10/2012 will get Freeview Signal if not I will be on here looking for something to be done and will be looking for assistance,In the meantime Can you check who runs TV Mast At Limavady require there contact details as Digital Uk are only an adcive line and have nothing to do with Engineers i was told.
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Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Gerry: There is no contact channel to the broadcast authorities for viewers. There are no guarantees of reception available, it doesn't work that way.
It will all be worked out in advance using computers.
I cannot believe that, should you not be able to receive post-switchover, you are thinking that you may be able to ring them up and get the transmitter adjusted!
I've given my six penith and I think that the best thing you can do is forget about it until next Wednesday. I believe that the likely answer is that it will all work fine.
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Friday, 5 October 2012
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sean quigg9:56 PM
sean here. i fit aerials for over 20 years and when this switchover happens signals will overload when the power is turned way up so messing up lots of peoples freeview due to overpowering the signal received....if this does happen its gonna be a bleak christmas with no tv as every installer in the country will be out trying to decrease the incoming signal to tvs so as to get a better reception...hopefully im wrong.................
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Sunday, 7 October 2012
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Helen8:38 PM
Doing tune/testing here -What Digital channel no 30 coming from brings signal nut no channels coming in? I do hope that when switchover happens that power is turned on full blast so everyone can get signal from limavady transmitter,
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Helen: Holywell Hill broadcasts its digital multiplex on C30.
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